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Austin Yard

3505 Montopolis Dr, Austin, TX 78744
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Coverage

One yard,
five states

Own trucks across the Texas triangle, vetted carriers beyond it, and a standing willingness to tell you when a local supplier would serve you better than we would.

IBC totes loaded single-stacked inside a dry van trailer, strapped over the cage rails with the rear door open to blue sky

Order desk

Delivered price to your postal code

Freight on containers is priced by the pallet position rather than the pound, so quantity and ZIP are the two fields that actually determine your number.

A working address — the quote comes back here.

US or Canada only, in the format (XXX) XXX-XXXX.

US state or Canadian province — name or two-letter code.

US ZIP (XXXXX or XXXXX-XXXX) or Canadian postal code (A1A 1A1).

26 totes fill a 53-foot trailer single-stacked.

Quotes are written by a human in the Austin yard, usually the same day. We never sell or share what you send us.

The short answer

We deliver on our own fleet across the Austin–San Antonio–Houston–Dallas triangle, and through vetted carriers into Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico and the Gulf Coast corridor. Lead times run from same day inside Austin to seven business days on the far Gulf Coast run. Buy-back collection follows the same routes, and is cheapest when it rides a return leg that was already happening.

  • Free buy-back collection at 20+ units statewide, any count inside Austin
  • Backhaul pricing when your date is flexible — the largest discount we offer
  • Beyond about 900 miles we will usually tell you to buy locally

01Primary areas

Where we run our own trucks

01

Austin

The yard itself. Collect in person or take metro delivery.

Same day

02

San Antonio

80 miles, three runs a week, cheap collections on the return leg.

Backhaul rates

03

Houston

The corridor that supplies the yard. Weekly collection runs.

Volume intake

02Lead times

How long it takes to get there

Delivery lead time and collection minimums by area
AreaDistanceDeliveryCollection minimum
Austin metro0–30 miSame or next dayAny quantity
San Marcos, New Braunfels30–50 mi1–2 days10 units
San Antonio, Bexar County80 mi2–3 days20 units
Waco, Temple, Killeen70–100 mi2–3 days20 units
Houston & ship channel165 mi2–4 days20 units
Dallas–Fort Worth195 mi3–4 days20 units
Bryan–College Station100 mi2–3 days20 units
Victoria, Corpus Christi130–210 mi3–5 days25 units
Beaumont, Port Arthur255 mi4–6 days30 units
Lake Charles, Lafayette310–380 mi5–7 days30 units
Oklahoma City, Tulsa390–470 miCarrier quote40 units
El Paso, Lubbock, Amarillo350–570 miCarrier quote40 units

Collection minimums are waived on any load that can be scheduled onto an existing route. If your timing is flexible, say so — it is the difference between a dedicated trip and a nearly free one.

03Honesty clause

When we will tell you to buy elsewhere

Containers are bulky, light and cheap relative to the cost of moving them. Past about nine hundred miles the freight starts to dominate the invoice, and at that point you are paying us mostly for diesel.

When that happens we will say so and, where we can, name a yard closer to you. We would rather lose an order than take one where the customer is buying a bad deal from us — partly because it is the right thing, and partly because a truck crossing the country half-empty is precisely the kind of emission this whole business exists to avoid.

The exception is specialty work: rebottling, fabrication, food grade sourcing and programme-scale asset recovery are worth shipping a long way for, because very few yards do them properly.

?Common questions

Questions people actually ask

Which areas do you actually deliver to?

Everywhere in Texas on regular routes, with named runs into Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth and the Gulf Coast corridor through Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange, Lake Charles and Baton Rouge. Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico are served on volume loads.

How long does delivery take to each metro?

Austin metro is next day subject to truck availability. San Antonio and the Gulf Coast corridor are typically two to three days, Houston and Dallas–Fort Worth similar, and anything requiring reconditioning first adds the wash line lead time on top.

Is there a minimum order for delivery?

Below about six containers the freight usually exceeds the value of what you are buying, and we will tell you that rather than quietly quoting it. Yard collection from Montopolis Drive is always available and is always the cheapest option.

Do you collect used totes in the same areas you deliver to?

Yes, and the return leg is exactly why collection can be free. Buy-back collection runs 1–3 days inside Austin at any quantity and 3–10 days statewide at 20 units or more, routed against outbound deliveries wherever the timing works.

Will you ship outside the region?

Rarely, and we will normally say so. A container crossing the country half-empty is precisely the emission this business exists to avoid. The exceptions are specialty work — rebottling, fabrication, food grade sourcing and programme-scale asset recovery — because very few yards do those properly.

◆On the yard

An outdoor container yard under a blue sky, with IBC totes stacked several high in long rows across a gravel lot
Outdoor storageThree Texas summers uncovered will chalk a bottle. Shade is the cheapest life extension there is.
A single clean reconditioned IBC tote in the foreground of a warehouse, with stacks of further containers receding behind it
One container, eight livesA well-managed container sees four to eight service lives. The cage usually outlives three bottles.

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